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AMD CPU AM2 4200 Dual Corer Athlon 64 Socket AM2 940 PIN Retail box inc fan Energy Efficient (3yr Manufacturers Warranty)
- Manufacturer: AMD
- Manf Code: ADO4200CUBOX
- Quick Code: S012766
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Multi-tasking has become a way of life, but sometimes your PC just can''t keep up with everything you want to do on it at the same time. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor enables true multitasking - taking computing to an all new level. Dual-Core technology is like having two processors working together, each one taking care of different applications. So now you can simultaneously burn a CD, check e-mail, edit a digital photo, and run your virus protection - all without slowing down your computer. To protect your computer you''ve installed all the latest virus protection and firewall software. The result Your PC is safer but slower. Upgrade to a computer powered by the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor - now you can run protection programs in the background while a second runs the applications you want to work on - making computing fast again.
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HyperTransport technology
AMD64 technology
integrated memory controller
Enhanced Virus Protection
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| Installed Size | L2 Cache - 1 MB ( 2 x 512 KB ) |
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| Compatible Slots | 1 x processor - Socket AM2 |
| General | |
| Product Type | Processor |
| Manufacturer Warranty | |
| Service & Support Details | Limited warranty - 3 years |
| Service & Support | 3 years warranty |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Package Type | AMD Processor in a Box (PIB) |
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| 64-bit Computing | Yes |
| Clock Speed | 2.2 GHz |
| Manufacturing Process | 90 nm |
| Compatible Processor Socket | Socket AM2 |
| Multi-Core Technology | Dual-Core |
| Core Voltage | 1.2 V/1.25 V |
| Processor Qty | 1 |
| Architecture Features | HyperTransport technology, AMD64 technology, integrated memory controller, Enhanced Virus Protection |
| Type / Form Factor | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ |
| Thermal Specification | 72 °C |
| Thermal Design Power | 65 W |
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AMD welcomed the new year with a spanking new AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor. Based on the Toledo core, it's a dual-core processor clocked at 2.6GHz. Find out how much faster is the new FX-60 as compared to the FX-57 and the X2 4800+.
| Rating | 80 |
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| Title | Product Reviews: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | Jason Saundalkar |
| Summary | (million floating point operations per second). The FX-57 managed 12,632MIPS and 5,756MFLOPS. |
| Pros | 64-bit software ready, unlocked multiplier. |
| Cons | Expensive, clockspeed limits single-threaded performance. |
| Verdict | While the FX-60 is fast, it will only reach its full potential when more multithreaded software becomes available. |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | Anand Lal Shimpi |
| Summary | AMD's Socket-939 has been the platform of choice almost immediately after its introduction, so it is fitting that the last Socket-939 processor to be released would be the Athlon 64 FX-60. |
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| Verdict | AMD's Socket-939 has been the platform of choice almost immediately after its introduction, so it is fitting that the last Socket-939 processor to be released would be the Athlon 64 FX-60 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 |
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| Summary | AMD's Athlon X2 series is only available on the 65 nm Brisbane core (G1 or G2 stepping). Introduced as a high efficiency model, it delivers exactly the same performance as the Athlon 64 X2 running at equal clock speeds. However, its reduced core ... |
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| Rating | 70 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon X2 7850 BE: For those on a Tight Budget |
| Reviewed By | Roydon Cerejo |
| Summary | CPU available for a little less than 4K |
| Pros | |
| Cons | Poor overclocker, gaming performance, power consumption |
| Verdict | Characters are not case sensitive |
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| Title | AMD SEMPRON 64 3000 AM2 Processor 64bit 1600MHz FSB CPU |
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| Summary | AMD SEMPRON 64 3000+ AM2 Processor 64bit 1600MHz FSB CPU... |
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| Rating | 90 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX60 |
| Reviewed By | Wayne Brooker |
| Summary | AMD have launched their first " enthusiast="enthusiast" dual="dual" core="core" cpu="cpu" and="and" we="we" got="got" to="to" take="take" it="it" for="for" a="a |
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| Verdict | If your sole aim in life is to run single-threaded software, which most current games are then AMD's FX 57 is the processor you want, but I honestly think 2006 will mark the demise of the single-core CPU and that any forward-thinking user who's ... |
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| Title | AMD Athlon X2 7750 and 5050e Dual-Core Processor Review |
| Reviewed By | Nathan Kirsch |
| Summary | Quad-Core processors are all the rage these days, but with the economy down and out people might want to take another look at dual-core processors to keep your household budget intact. AMD is today announcing the Athlon X2 7750 - a STARS-based (Phenom ... |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | Rich Brown |
| Summary | It's as fast as we imagined, but we wish AMD's new dual-core chip played better with other computer parts out of the gate. |
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| Title | Amd_athlon64_x2_5000: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+. Diagonal races |
| Reviewed By | Vladimir Romanchenko |
| Summary | Analyzing the performance level of modern mid-end dual-core processors on the example of AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ |
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| Title | t-break - AMD Athlon64 X2-5200+ |
| Reviewed By | Abbas Jaffar Ali |
| Summary | Not too long ago, even the slightest refresh on AMD CPUs would get forums flooded with discussions from just about everyone. Thats why it feels a little weird to have AMD release stuff without much fanfare nowadays. In the last couple of months, we ... |
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| Title | t-break - AMD Athlon64 FX-62 |
| Reviewed By | Abbas Jaffar Ali |
| Summary | We managed to get our hands on the Athlon64 5000+ just a day before it was officially launched and had our article online just in time the NDA lifted. That was one of the two CPUs that AMD launched that day. The second CPU, the FX-62, is currently AMD ... |
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| Verdict | Generally speaking, the FX-62 is slightly faster than the FX-60 which is a good thing as the FX-60 is pretty damn fast. By increasing the clock frequency by 200MHz on the FX-62, AMD has managed to overcome the loss of performance caused by the high ... |
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| Title | t-break - AMD Athlon64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | Abbas Jaffar Ali |
| Summary | The FX-60 is probably the last Socket 939 based FX CPU from AMD and instead of closing this chapter with a bang, it seems as though AMD is saving all their fireworks for their upcoming M2 socket based CPUs. |
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| Verdict | With dual core enhancements to graphics drivers, the FX-60 comes out on top in most of the tests falling right in line with AMD's positioning of the FX series as the fastest desktop CPU. The FX-57's slightly higher clock speeds help it get past the FX ... |
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| Title | Review summary of AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | alaTest |
| Summary | alaTest collected and analyzed 1964 reviews of AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 from international magazines and websites and compared these to 42095 reviews for other Processors & Motherboards. |
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| Verdict | Experts rate this product 77/100 and users 94/100. The amount of rated reviews for this product is too low to calculate a reliable alaScore™. |
| Rating | 60 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX74 |
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| Summary | Intel's four core Kentsfield processors have been out for a few months now, but we're still at the very early stages of the quad core revolution. Supreme Commander will be the first game that can make use of four separate CPU cores at once |
| Pros | Competitor for Kentsfield |
| Cons | Slower than Q6600, Power hungry, Noisy and expensive |
| Verdict | An interesting sideshow for the multicore main event, but Intel still holds the centre stage |
| Rating | 67 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 |
| Reviewed By | Rich Brown |
| Summary | AMD's Athlon 64 FX-62 represents a major shift in design for AMD. The chip itself is straightforward; it's a dual-core performance CPU that offers a marginal performance increase over the older Athlon 64 FX-60. More importantly, the FX-62 is the ... |
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| Verdict | AMD's Athlon 64 FX-62 helps usher in the new Socket AM2 chipset, but incremental performance gains make AMD look vulnerable to Intel's next-gen chips, due later this year. |
| Rating | 70 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ |
| Reviewed By | Rich Brown |
| Summary | Along with last week's Athlon 64 FX-62 CPU and Socket AM2 chipset announcements, AMD introduced a more mainstream dual-core chip, the Athlon 64 X2 5000+. At $696 (according to AMD's pricing per 1,000 units), the X2 5000+ has a lot of performance to ... |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
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| Summary | Editor's note: We've updated this First Take to reflect the fact that the systems on which we had trouble testing the FX-60 all arrived with overclocked parts. (1/11/06)Hot on the heels of Intel's second-generation dual-core Extreme Edition 955 chip ... |
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| Rating | 70 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ |
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| Summary | AMD's new high-end dual-core CPU offers plenty of bang for the buck, outpacing Intel's Pentium 965 Extreme Edition, which costs $200 more. Sounds like a good deal, but wait to see what Intel's next-gen Core 2 Duo chips have to offer when they debut ... |
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| Cons | AMD's new high-end dual-core CPU offers plenty of bang for the buck, outpacing Intel's Pentium 965 Extreme Edition, which costs $200 more. Sounds like a good deal, but wait to see what Intel's next-gen Core 2 Duo chips have to offer when they debut ... |
| Verdict | Requires new motherboard and memory; Intel's new, potentially faster CPUs are right around the corner. |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 |
| Reviewed By | James Gorbold |
| Summary | While Intel is guilty of changing its CPU packaging and chipsets with almost every new CPU launch, AMD has been more conservative. For example, it... |
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| Verdict | DDR2 does nothing for the athlon 64 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | James Gorbold |
| Summary | It's only the first month of the year, and already AMD and Intel have launched new processors, the Athlon 64 FX-60 and the Pentium Extreme... |
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| Verdict | More silicone than Pamela Anderson's cleavage |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | Ryszard Sommefeldt |
| Summary | Hector Ruiz, AMD CEO, poses with brain transplant, yesterday The Athlon 64 FX, pinnacle of AMD's consumer processor offerings, now has two cores. Two cores, to more effectively run a modern OS, is why you see Hector Ruiz, AMD's CEO and Chairman of ... |
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| Verdict | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 is the best consumer processor AMD have ever produced. With effectively a pair of FX-55s sat in the same socket, sharing an efficient memory controller, it's close enough to FX-57 in single-threaded apps that the multi-threaded ... |
| Rating | 88 |
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| Title | AMD Sempron 3600+ 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Processor Review |
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| Summary | The AMD Sempron processor has received little press, but that hasn't stopped it from snagging a large portion of the mainstream market. |
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| Verdict | The 2.0GHz AMD Sempron 3600+ processor offers users on a budget a stable and reliable platform from which to build a workstation PC. The Sempron 3600+ is the ideal chip for mundane tasks like word processing, spreadsheets, email, surfing the internet ... |
| Rating | 90 |
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| Title | AMD64 3700+ San Diego S939 2.2GHz |
| Reviewed By | Greg King |
| Summary | Need a CPU and want the best bang for your buck? Today, we are taking a look at the 3700+ San Diego core AMD64. It rolls in at a 2.2GHz stock speed and is also equipped with 1MB L2 Cache. The chip costs around $275US, but does does it give enough ... |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 review |
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| Summary | Overclocking might give it fits, but at stock speeds, AMD's new dual-core elite chip is as fast as we had imagined. |
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| Rating | 60 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 |
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| Summary | This flagship chip has been left high and dry by developments elsewhere in the market |
| Pros | The best AMD has to offer |
| Cons | Newer processors are cheaper and better |
| Verdict | Thanks to the FX-62's pitiful overclocking headroom (we only managed to squeeze out another 200MHz), the FX-62 gets rogered. It's also spanked by the £119 E6300. If the FX is to become competitive once again, AMD badly needs to push it well beyond 3GHz |
| Rating | 70 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 |
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| Summary | Each chip has its own bank of memory |
| Pros | Competitor for Kentsfield |
| Cons | Slower than Q6600, Power hungry, Noisy and expensive |
| Verdict | In professional applications - for audio, video, photo and 3D editing, for example - multi- threading is already the norm and as we found in our Kenstfield reviews, performance in optimised applications scales very nicely as you add more ... |
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| Title | Crowning a new Champ; AMD's Opteron 165 |
| Reviewed By | Tuan Nguyen |
| Summary | Costing nearly half the price of the speedier 175 part, the Opteron 165 latest pricing of $300 is generating high demand. |
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| Verdict | AMD's Opteron processors are aimed squarely at the server and workstation market and thus come with extra features such as larger caches which help speed up repetitive processes. Up until recently however, processors from both AMD and Intel with large ... |
| Rating | 100 |
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| Title | AMD Opteron 250, 2.4 GHz (osa250aubox) Retail Processor |
| Reviewed By | Cindy Johnson |
| Summary | The AMD Opteron 250, 2.4 GHz (osa250aubox) Retail Processor provides a highly scalable architecture that delivers next-generation performance as well as a flexible upgrade path from 32- to 64-bit computing. With a single architecture designed to meet ... |
| Pros | Performance and reliable. |
| Cons | Expensive |
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| Title | AMD64 Live! and Intel Viiv |
| Reviewed By | The Editors of Tom's Hardware |
| Summary | AMD's first try in platform branding. Expect the AMD 64 Live! Logo to be branded and marketed just like Intel's Centrino and Viiv. |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 |
| Reviewed By | Rich Brown, CNET.com |
| Summary | amd athlon 64 fx-60 review: It's as fast as we imagined, but we wish AMD's new dual-core chip played better with other computer parts out of the gate. |
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| Rating | 80 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition Review - CPUs and Memory Reviews |
| Reviewed By | Leo Waldock |
| Summary | AMD finally updates its Athlon X2 series to the K10 (Phenom) architecture. Is it enough to take the dual-core crown though? |
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| Title | AMD Athlon X2 7750 does fine |
| Reviewed By | Eliot Kucharik |
| Summary | Review: Though it's no match for Intel, yet After long denying any Phenom-based Athlons, then releasing the 6500 silently, now AMD introduces new models of the 7000 series. The naming is adding to some confusion for the customers, because there is ... |
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| Verdict | There is much work ahead for AMD. They need to lower the TDP and introduce a cheaper chipset, if possible, a single chip solution. Due to the low price we are sure there will be some attractive bundles for the big OEMs. If you like to build an HTPC ... |
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| Title | REVIEWS: AMD Athlon X2 7750 BE 2.7GHz CPU ? Phenom goes Dual-Core (14th December 2008) |
| Reviewed By | Cameron Johnson |
| Summary | Today we look at a new AMD Phenom based CPU. Introducing the Kuma based Athlon X2 7750 2.7GHz Black Edition processor. |
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| Verdict | It seems that AMD may finally be putting the K8 to bed, and we can only hope so, there really isn't a need for two architectures on the same platform |
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| Title | AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition: dual-core Phenom at the ready |
| Reviewed By | Tarinder Sandhu |
| Summary | Introduction It's no secret that AMD will be launching updated Phenom quad-core processors very early next year, based on the company's 45nm manufacturing process, and if the signs that we saw last month are accurate predictors of overall clock-speed ... |
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| Verdict | Conclusion and final ratingAMD's decision to introduce new dual-core processors based on its quad-core Phenom architecture is a move that was predicted some time ago and, really, the inception is long-overdue |
| Rating | 85 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ |
| Reviewed By | Kailas Shastry |
| Summary | Ideal choice for a performance CPU at the Rs 8,000 mark. |
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| Verdict | The price war between two major CPU manufacturers has resulted in AMD's second fastest processor being available at under Rs 8,000 - great news for someone assembling or upgrading a performance PC |
| Rating | 88 |
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| Title | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ |
| Reviewed By | Soham Raninga |
| Summary | With enough oomph under its belt, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ is recommended for a sub Rs. 10,000 processor. |
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| Verdict | In the microprocessor world, the mainstream segment is where the action lies. With chips running at higher clock speeds and competing neck and neck across all benchmarks, the selection process gets even more interesting |
